While true, why are you linking this comment in almost all the other comments? They are not incorrect, it just makes you look like an ass.

Is it still asking for root password everywhere ?

Instance name too.

$60 in 1992 is about $135 in April 2025, inflation included.

Sure games became more complex, but tools became more powerfull, and so did computers.

In 1992 you often had to code your own engine, which amounted for a good chunk of the development cost. They had to do that using a ressource envelope magnitudes smaller than what we have today. Heck, a jpeg screencap of the original Mario game is bigger than the whole original game itself. Let’s not forget that games where physical, which had to be included in the final price.

Todays devs often uses off the shelf engines, tools that automate some of the tedious task, like making trees (Speedtree) and asset reuse is done on an industrial level, there are even marketplaces for that. Moreover, game distribution changed to be mostly digital, you don’t need to factor the medium price into the asked price.

You cannot really compare 1992 dev costs with modern ones. The whole way games are done changed way too much for that.

Moreover, the market has grown way beyond what is was then. The required profit per copy sold is a lot smaller than it was then, and thus should be accojnted for.

Honesty, I don’t see a AAA needing to have more than $60-70 atm, and I think this bump in price is entirely due to the ever increasing marketing cost, more than the game development.

Hey! Pope down the puns a bit.

You just had to wait 2 more hours for that.

My dad uses LibreOffice for years, still call it OpenOffice 😂.

You mean OwnCloud, don’t you?

You don’t need 4 drive for redundancy, 2 is enough. You only need 4 minimum for a raidz2, or raid 10.
My setup uses a pair of SSD in mirror for apps, and a 5 disk raidz2 (4 data disk + a hot spare) as a main data backbone.

I’d prefer MS SQL over Oracle SQL any day. And PG SQL over both of them.

Cassette Beasts is great. So great I got the OST on both Vinyl… And cassette tape, of course 😆.

Never tried Wandersong, gonna have to add it to my playlist.

But prepare to cry 🥲.

Greate game, but I wouldn’t call it girly at all. 😂

Sure, the main protagonist is a girl, but the story is dark 😅.

Will be added, along others, when I finish rewriting the sidebar.

Well, all of their game would fit to be honest 😆. Journey, Flow, even Sky if you are into cute social MMOish game.